African americans Quote by James Baldwin

“The paradox—and a fearful paradox it is—is that the American Negro can have no future anywhere, on any continent, as long as he is…

— James Baldwin

“The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new black man,…

— James Baldwin

“may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing,…

— Carter G. Woodson

“Perhaps I should have been a Negro. I suspect I would have been a rather large and terrifying one, continually pressing my ample thigh…

— John Kennedy Toole

“The past is not alive to them the way it is to Georges; they do not remember—and thus do not see the reality of…

— Tom Reiss

“Our Negro problem, therefore, is not of the Negro's making. No group in our population is less responsible for its existence. But every group…

— Isabel Wilkerson

“considering how thorough-going was the capture of the minds of the Blacks, it is really not surprising that so many Negro scholars still faithfully…

— Chancellor Williams

“First, it confirmed how inextricably interwoven the past is in the present, how heavily that past bears on the future; we cannot talk about…

— Jesmyn Ward

American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future.

— Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

“There's more to blackness than bludgeoning people with memories of past atrocities and injustices or the discussion of how difficult it is to be…

— Touré

We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but…

— Carter G. Woodson

“But race in the United States is not a tidy matter. Only three of the submitted pieces explicitly referenced the future. Most of them…

— Jesmyn Ward